Toldos 5787 - The Merits of the Avos

In this parish we have a who told to live here and I'll I'll bench you I will give all these lands to you meaning and I will fulfill the I swore to have So John points out does not have to assure anyone that he is going to fulfill the sh that he made. Uh a human being um maybe needs to sort of reassure that the shar he made is serious and he's going to do it. Keshbu is emis and the keshbu has the ability to fulfill it. It's it's kind of uh very very strange that there's a need for to repeat that he's going to fulfill this. There's another question if that's the then uh I mean if somebody's first promise is suspect and when someone comes along and he promises to keep his promise that sort of raises the suspicion um I understand if if mana if your first promise was real then uh we should be able to rely on that. If we can't rely on your promise, then we can't rely on any promise. So what's the point of it? Those those are the issues o over here with this with the um so says that vakimosi is not a reassurance but it's a sh um in its own right. swearing a second time to and then he says um and that's why always when it says it says in the I I swore that I'd give the land I swore to I swore to each and every one of them has um so the question is well why do we need that had sworn on um once and we know that anything that's a and will be what's the point of swearing to each one? It's almost the same question presents itself. So says that that each one of them is worthy of fulfilling a bris with him. He has called is the fun of the of each one of them should be there for and uh and he says even though one is enough but it's stronger and so on and so forth the um so let's try to understand what that means what he's trying to say >> it's it's certainly would be strange that it's simply um an anoric that was saying each one of you is worthy and so on. I mean what's the intent of this? So let's understand a little bit something about the of us. The three of us a are not just um it happened to be there to three of the says that anchora these are three the only ones that are called a it's not just that they happen to be very great and righteous people and worthy but there seems to be a setup you know had set up three of us as the foundation for Israel Now the um the kalisol is a unique nation. It has in itself the qualities that are uniquely needed to make an ammon hamashem. And those qualities rest on three pillars. Each one of them is absolutely necessary. It's I mean it's expressed in many ways as far speak about the different of and one of the reference points is no that's that's obvious he was the one that was um sacrificed he was a sacrifice and Jacob Vino is Torah. Those are the and that's why the Yakov Jacob is em to MS and so on. Many many many many illusions to it to these three things. Now these three things are all critical pieces in making an amashem. These are not just accumulation of measto. So lamarial for instance if I if if I want to hear about a person's particular mileus for a for for for whatever it is this person is this and this this this are just a list of um worthy things. Had there been one more, one less, it wouldn't have made the difference. Had it been something else instead of this, the main point is this person is a gifted person and um with many many positive virtues. It doesn't that there's no critical point over here. It just this person has all of these many wonderful qualities and that makes him a great person. It means this is an absolutely critical tripod. These are three points which need to fall into place for the world to stand. So defines three areas that without one of those three the world has no k it has no existence. And you can we can there could be many explanations for it but the point is it's three things that each one's absolutely critical. It's like I'm building a building and I define where there must be supports absolutely and without supports in each of these points the building will not stand. So in the makeup of Kalisurol if it's if if the world stands on three things then Classur who is the essence of the world they have to be a nation that possesses all these three things to the degree that can hold [clears throat] up the world. A is is is the is the pillar of is the pillar of aod and yak is the pillar of Torah. The the um these three attributes are an absolutely a must. They're essential. The others each one embodies each one of it. When aeshbu promises the land to clal Israel, then the promise is because of the virtues that each one of these others implanted in Israel. Each one is a must. So akadesh swore to each one meaning if this is in place and this is in place and this is in place then we have it's these are the three um critical points and therefore each each and everyone's is absolutely necessary for it. the the um the the the the swearing the promise against sort of a reflection of the fact that this is a mida that's absolutely necess the the the theos is a chosen nation in that they embody the the the central points that will make the world stand. Those are defined in the Mishna as Torah. they are um embodied in the AOS of Ramyakov and therefore um when Buru swears he's swearing to each and every a about so these swearings as opposed to a human being who promises and swears and so on in order to make sure that he does it he's not sure if he'll do it. So he sort of nails himself down which that's not that's not the case is a statement that it is due to this that belongs to Israel. So since there are three pillars and each one of these pillars is the critical piece needed to to bring to bring kais and since the obvious embody it there was av to each and every av telling him that your role is absolutely critical to his role and it's your that is going to bring to Israel.